Family and Pastoral Care Pastor Full Time

Midway Community Church | Family and Pastoral Care

Midway Community Church is a Christ-centered, medium-sized Baptist church located in Alpharetta, GA. Our bold mission is to Glorify God by Helping People Follow Jesus – locally and around the world. We are searching for ministry leadership, focused on families, pastoral care, and our Kidsway children’s ministry.
 
Kidsway Children’s Ministry:

• Organize, market, and run all Kidsway weekly and special events
  • Special Event Examples: Vacation Bible School, Christmas Program (w/Worship Pastor)
• Steward the Kidsway budget
• Find, train, encourage, and bring excitement to Kidsway volunteers
• Honor the Lord in Kidsway execution, curriculum, and the relationships built
• Continually improve Kidsway ministry, innovating as needed
• Understand the times, pressures, and biblical worldview issues facing kids and their parents
• Encourage, educate, and embolden parents to train up their kids in the Lord
• Ultimately, help kids (and their parents) understand the Gospel and grow spiritually
• Lead teacher for children in Kidsway Sunday and Wednesday activities
• Promote Sunday School and other church ministries to Kidsway parents
• Coordinate with our Youth Pastor for a consistent, cohesive ministry approach across all ages of kids

 

Pastoral Care:

• Arrange and assist pastoral staff with hospital and home visits
• Support congregational music needs for weddings and funerals
• Coordinate and arrange benevolence requests in conjunction with pastoral and office staffs
• Welcome and follow up with visitors and minister to those who are new to the church

 
 
Families:

• Family Discipleship – Develop programs, especially as they overlap with children and youth ministry
• Sunday School – Give leadership to adult Sunday School assimilation
• Occasional Pulpit Supply

 
 
Other responsibilities:

• Attend and contribute to weekly staff meetings
• Assist with other church activities as needed, including hospital and home visits time permitting
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Pastor
• Be an active member of Midway Community Church!

 

Qualifications:

• Training: Undergrad degree required, preferably from a bible college or seminary
  • Previous children’s ministry experience
• Personal and Spiritual Development:
  • Love for God’s Word as sufficient, with a consistent hermeneutical approach to the Scriptures
  • Maximize ministry effectiveness: balancing family, ministry, and rest
  • Demonstrated growth in Christ
  • Candidates for Associate Pastor level will meet deacon/elder qualifications found in 1st Timothy 3
• Spiritually and professionally accountable to the Midway Elders
• In agreement with
  • Baptist Faith and Message and the Midway Constitution
  • Young Earth creationism and a historical Adam and Eve
  • Complementarian view of gender roles within the church
  • Cessationist view of miraculous / sign gifts
  • Credobaptism and regenerate church membership
  • Desire and call to the Great Commission
  • Jesus as fully man and fully God, sinless, the propitiation of sin, and bodily resurrected
• Creative; can execute with limited direction; excellent communication skills

 
Job Specifications/Benefits:

• Full-time, Salary (Exempt), reporting to: Sr. Pastor
• Benefits:  Paid leave, medical and retirement benefits, potential for housing allowance
   
  Inquires and resumes accepted at: [email protected]